Quotes about writ
writing seems
I love to write, so it rarely seems like work - even when it gets arduous. Dennis Lehane
writing dark two
I found that I could write two kinds of short stories: I could write very absurd, kind of surrealistic, funny stories; or I could write very dark, realistic - hyper-realistic - stories. I was never happy with that, because I couldn't meld the two. Dennis Lehane
writing bars use
I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur - do whatever it took. But from the moment I took my first writing workshop, I was a writer. Dennis Lehane
writing simple secret
It's very simple. If you learn how to write well, to write with depth, cream will rise to the top. You'll get published. But, there is no secret. Dennis Lehane
writing people want
It's good not only to realize that you can't please all of the people all of the time, but that you don't want to. There's a certain type of reader that you don't ever want to write for. Dennis Lehane
writing white house
The White House again refused to turn over discussions Vice President Cheney had with Enron officials over energy policy. Cheney said if he had to disclose every time some business donated a ton of money then came in to write its own policy to govern itself, he wouldn't get any work done. Dennis Miller
writing political stories
I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn't realise political writing could be so funny. Denise Mina
writing world might
For all mankind that unstained scroll unfurled, Where God might write anew the story of the World. Edward Everett Hale
writing artist expression
Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality. Edgar Degas
writing soul different
We would not - from here - counsel anyone to be guided by influences from without. ... If these come as in inspirational writings from within, and not as guidance from others - that is different ... the inspirational may develop the soul of the individual, while the automatic may rarely reach beyond the force that is guiding or directing. Edgar Cayce
writing shapes needs
I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape. Ed Westwick
writing thinking trying
I think the moment you start trying to please a fan base is when you start going downhill. I'm going to always, always write about what I want, even if it doesn't necessarily cater to most of them. Ed Sheeran
writing gigs tunes
The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become. Ed Sheeran
writing always-trying different
I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein. Earl King
writing satire
I like to write a lot of satire. Earl King
writing gymnastics
Im a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it. Earl King
writing trying pages
I keep telling myself I should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages... I don't seem to be capable of it, but I keep hoping it will happen. Elizabeth Kostova
writing men years
If women ran Hollywood, The Hollywood Reporter would have a Men in Entertainment issue every year, and those jerks would have to write something. Elizabeth Meriwether
writing feelings mischievous
If I'm writing something and I'm not feeling mischievous, then I know it's not going to be great. Elizabeth Meriwether
writing skeletons elements
You cant improv off of bad writing. Then you have to actually create your objective, which is really hard to do in an element without the skeleton to go off of. Eliza Coupe
writing one-day three
You may write twenty lines one day--or even three like Euripides in three days--and a hundred lines in one more day--and yet on the hundred, may have been expended as much good work, as on the twenty and the three. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
writing kissing romantic-love
First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
writing seems courses
Like to write? Of course, of course I do. I seem to live while I write - it is life, for me. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
writing justice nations
A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal. Abba Eban
writing thinking class
I don't think I write differently when I'm writing a screenplay, as opposed to a stage play or a teleplay. Maybe if I were in a film class and there was time to think about it, we could point out differences. Aaron Sorkin
writing mean important
I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue. But when I'm writing, the way the words sound is as important to me as what they mean. Aaron Sorkin
writing want directors
When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me. Aaron Sorkin
writing play television
The thing I know how to do most is write a play. I came up loving plays and learning about plays and writing plays. I actually feel like an outsider when I'm writing movies and television. Aaron Sorkin
writing thinking people
Honestly, I don't try to guess at what most people want. I don't think I'd guess right, and I just think that that's not a good recipe for storytelling. I try to write what I like, what I think my friends would like. Aaron Sorkin
writing division-of-labor doe
Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else. Aaron Sorkin
writing play watches
The stuff that I write doesn't work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play. Aaron Sorkin
writing thinking would-be
I think that if I couldn't write, I would be unemployable. Aaron Sorkin
writing thinking people
I think it's up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch. Aaron Sorkin